No one is trying to portray al Qaeda as "ordinary criminals". That is missing the point. The Mafia are not "ordinary criminals". The issue in question is the idea that if a group of Navy Seals, who have secured the incident scene and are facing a defenseless man, can (or should) they shoot him in the head. "Killing a captive who poses no immediate threat is a crime under military law as well as all other law."
Why do we want to kill him? Revenge? Fear he may be released by a jury? Or, that we simply was a guy who had crossed over some invisible line that made him so bad that he no longer deserves any justice?
If he would have had a gun, or if he tried any action that was threatening, to the Seals, then he should have been shot. But despite the many rumors it sounds like the US military simply executed him. To me that is morally wrong.
But, hey, as I tried to show in my previous post, different experts have different opinions. So, I will not try claim the moral high ground, but it doesn't sound right to me. It is not a Liberal or Conservative issue, or pro-Obama, anti-Obama issue. To me, it is simply a matter of shooting an unarmed, non-threatening man as being wrong.
